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Americans repeatedly hear that the country needs about 125,000 jobs per month simply to keep up with population growth. Mitt Romney, for example, has added that theme to his nascent presidential campaign.

Last week in a telephone interview with editorial writers and other journalists worldwide Alejandro Mayorkas, chief of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, outlined the Obama administration’s plan to make non-immigrant work visas and green cards more readily available to so called "job creators" as a solution to U.S unemployment.

In the July 28th edition of the Sacramento Bee, González Gutiérrez, consul general of Mexico, was quoted, saying, "As a natural consequence of us transforming from a rural to an urban society, we are running out of Mexicans to export. Our society's growing at a rate of 2.1 children per woman – in the 1970s it was more than five."

Capitol Hill’s knee-jerk reaction to problem solving is to call for more immigration, issue more non-immigrant visas or liberalize existing immigration laws. Even the jobs crisis, according to the Obama administration, requires more immigrants.

Understanding the logic behind calling for more immigration no matter what is tough. If you have, as the United States does, too many people and not enough jobs, why would you add more people?

"Government of the people, by the people and for the people" was President Abraham Lincoln's eloquent way of describing the relationship between the citizens of the United States and their government in his Gettysburg Address.

That famous quote is often repeated but there seems to be scant attention paid to what those amazing 11 words really mean.

The United States is confronting so many challenges coming from many directions simultaneously.

Our nation is facing a debt ceiling and no one has yet to determine what will happen if the debt ceiling is not raised and the United States defaults on its obligations. What is known that this would likely have serious ramifications for our nation, our citizens, and for other countries across the planet.

Earlier last week, I spent a couple of days in Chicago. My mission was to watch the San Francisco Giants play the Cubs. But shortly after my arrival I learned that a long standing advocate of more immigration, former president Bill Clinton, was in also in town. Knowing that Clinton would be talking up an agenda hurtful to Americans, I was somewhat distracted.

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Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit membership organization that relies solely on donations. CAPS works to formulate and advance policies and programs designed to stabilize the population of California, the U.S. and the world at levels which will preserve the environment and a good quality of life for all.